Michelle703
Hatching
Hoping someone can advise on this issue...I’ve looked everywhere for an answer!
We’ve been raising chickens for almost a decade and haven’t seen this. We have twenty year-old chickens of various breeds (19 hens, 1 roo). They all look perfectly healthy. Feather sheen, red combs, alert and curious, no wheezing, clean butts. Their poop is perfect. No signs of worms, lice or other parasites. They have a secure coop with straw bedding and free range on our large partially wooded property. (We have another separated flock on another area of the property that has no issues.)
Their eggs have become, for lack of a better word, gross. About three weeks ago they started giving us one or two bad eggs, then three or four, and so on each day until now they are almost all bad. So obvs something contagious is making its way through the flock. But with no other symptoms. The bad eggs have a runny dark yellow yolk with watery whites and sometimes are blood tinged. But from the outside they are perfect - beautiful colors and nice thick shells with not a trace of imperfection.
Is there a disease or parasite that shows no outward symptoms in the hen but that affects the contents of the egg in this way? Please let me know if anyone else has experience in dealing with this!
Chicken breeds include Easter eggers, lakeshore eggers, marans. They eat a high quality, commercial grain-based feed. We did start ACV in the water last week. They seem so happy and healthy.
We’ve been raising chickens for almost a decade and haven’t seen this. We have twenty year-old chickens of various breeds (19 hens, 1 roo). They all look perfectly healthy. Feather sheen, red combs, alert and curious, no wheezing, clean butts. Their poop is perfect. No signs of worms, lice or other parasites. They have a secure coop with straw bedding and free range on our large partially wooded property. (We have another separated flock on another area of the property that has no issues.)
Their eggs have become, for lack of a better word, gross. About three weeks ago they started giving us one or two bad eggs, then three or four, and so on each day until now they are almost all bad. So obvs something contagious is making its way through the flock. But with no other symptoms. The bad eggs have a runny dark yellow yolk with watery whites and sometimes are blood tinged. But from the outside they are perfect - beautiful colors and nice thick shells with not a trace of imperfection.
Is there a disease or parasite that shows no outward symptoms in the hen but that affects the contents of the egg in this way? Please let me know if anyone else has experience in dealing with this!
Chicken breeds include Easter eggers, lakeshore eggers, marans. They eat a high quality, commercial grain-based feed. We did start ACV in the water last week. They seem so happy and healthy.
